Particularly with the most recent news about the Republicans’ refusal to pass a meaningful repeal of Obamacare, along with Trump threatening to go after the House Freedom Caucus in the next election, I’m not too upset about the necessity to immerse myself in the world of Atlas Shrugged for a few weeks.

One has to wonder: what is the purpose of writing such an article? It seems neither to be to attack Ayn Rand or objectivism nor to expose the actual thinking of the people identified. Rather it seems to be to use Ayn Rand as a boogeyman with which to sneakily smear them and to scare and excite a progressive audience.